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Yugoslavia signs the Kumanovo Agreement; NATO halts its bombs after 78 days
Military representatives meeting in Macedonia commit Yugoslav and Serbian forces to a staged, eleven-day withdrawal from Kosovo.
After 78 days of NATO bombing, Yugoslav and Serbian forces were running out of options. On June 9, 1999, military representatives of NATO's Kosovo Force and the governments of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and Serbia signed the Kumanovo Agreement in Kumanovo, Macedonia, committing Yugoslav troops to a staged withdrawal from Kosovo over eleven days. NATO suspended its air campaign the following day, and on June 12, a 30,000-strong KFOR peacekeeping force entered the province — greeted, in many villages, with flowers thrown by Albanian civilians at passing convoys…
